Saturday, May 5, 2012

Eidetic memory

Eidetic memory is also known as photographic memory.

Some persons have a very great eidetic memory. Swami Vivekananda was one such person. He could go through a dictionary once and could tell the page number in which a particular word appears in that dictionary.

Some persons have a very good memory and some other try to develop it.

My friend PRS (Mani) had a very good memory. We used to run an electric motor repair shop in which
scores of motors will be lying in the shop-floor to be repaired. Whenever he returned to the shop after
a few hours or few days, he would go round the shop-floor and could easily spot the ones that had come in
for repairs in his absence. For me, I had to look into the receipts book and identify those motors.

We had a number of open almirahs in which items would be lying in so many rows and columns. Once when
my friend was away in Bellary, we could not locate a small coil which was to be repaired and returned urgently.
We rang him up and explained our predicament. After a few minutes he said , " the first almirah on your left
as soon as you enter the shop, fourth column, fifth row". Lo, the coil was there just behind some other item.